I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant.

One of the reasons I like immersing myself in different texts, putting myself in the company of other writers, is that they do change your vocabulary. They change what you write about or they change the length of lines.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested in imagery. I think part of it is my training, and just my visual sense of things.

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.